Peter Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I also use the COM API via python to dispatch an application. My
> problem now is that I want to dispatch a second instance of this
> application (Google Earth by the way). But when I invoke dispatch
> the second time, nothing happens although using another variable to
> store the returned value:
>
> GE_1 = win32com.client.Dispatch("GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE")
>
> GE_2 = win32com.client.Dispatch("GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE")
>
> (import and while not .IsInitialized() statements omitted for brevity)
>
> Does anyone know how to start a second, third, and so on, instance of
> the application?
Suspect you want win32com.client.DispatchEx which, among
other things, starts a separate instance of the app. (Or
whatever they call the things in COMspeak).
GE_n = win32com.client.DispatchEx ("GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE")
TJG
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